Having progressed nicely since dipping his toe in the water on the big tour and knowing he'll need at least one massive week to climb from 27th and get his card back, this looks the best opportunity remaining for a player with six top-10s in Italy down the years.

He'd be first in the DP World Tour's strokes-gained around-the-green stats had he played enough rounds to qualify and, inspired surely by the journey his friend and former teammate Parry has completed, it would not surprise me one bit were he to bag his second win of the year and earn promotion.

Pedro Figueiredo's exceptional record at Adamstal and solid debut here combine with his recent play for a strong profile on paper, but he's an especially weak driver and has his limitations. I wondered briefly whether he might do as Hugo Townsend did and win the week after doing OK on home soil, but he's really not much of a price.

By contrast, his compatriot Daniel Rodrigues is a player of real potential. He beat Figueiredo and others to win the Portugal Golf Tour's order of merit at the beginning of the year, came through First Stage Q-School recently, and has fared well in limited chances at this level.

With his best performance so far at Adamstal (18th) and something approaching that level just last week (21st), he's one I had an eye on but it's still very early days. Maybe he'll be winning something like this next year.

I am though happy to take a chance on relative unknown NICHOLAS INFANTI, one of the growing number of Americans who has chosen this as their best route back home.

Infanti showed bits and pieces of promise last year but exited Q-School at Stage Two, and then reappeared on the Clutch Pro Tour in May where he won for the first time.

This will be his sixth HPT appearance since and after a shaky start he's now made his last four cuts, beginning in Brno where a third-round 62 saw him climb to 12th, then Ireland where he was 17th at the same stage before a poor Sunday, followed by 36th and 28th on his latest two starts.